The thing that Trump did was convince them to even go out and vote.
Trump got the angry young fired up youth behind him (much as Bernie had) and those people influenced all of their family. There were a lot of "I talked my mom into voting this election, never voted before!" posts in Trump forums/chats. Similar to the Sanders primary. One or two enthusiastic teens can potentially influence quite a few people by time you add up parents, friends, etc.
How many people do you think it's going to take to run a future factory? Electronics is going to follow the same path that the Auto industry did. How much health insurance, retirement and benefits do you think Robots take?
Because we're incapable of building our own production lines and fab shops?
An the world gets ready for Industry 4.0 companies are going to have to put in brand new production lines somewhere. It could be China or it could be in the US.
It's not as simple as that. "More than double" could mean a lot of things. It could just refer to the production costs.
China is quickly automating a lot of the factory jobs because Americans whine when Foxconn workers kill themselves. If they're going to completely automate a new product line the price difference between doing it in China and doing it in the US probably shrinks. Watch apple's videos on how the MBP is made. Count the workers.
Add in a lot of other fringe benefits you get from bringing it back home. First off is the good publicity. Apple just needs to release a Trump Murica edition and the first Made in America smart phone would sell out in the south faster than they do in the north. "Made in America" is this christmas's hottest gift out in Trump country. Most stores are pushing their local/American products front and center.
Then you have all the good for the environment feel good articles about how 1 ship moving iPhones from China is equal to X million trees. We reduced carbon emissions by this much. Subaru does Zero Landfill on their Car production lines, an iPhone can't be that much harder.
Finally there are all the engineering benefits. I don't know how many Kickstarters I've watched fail because they did everything in China and didn't have a good translator. With on-shore workers you can have face to face meetings more often with manufacturing reducing 1) problems 2) improving quality.
We've caught numerous getting ready for manufacturing. It's because people on the line give feedback straight to engineers. The average Chinese worker probably doesn't want to point out a problem they notice. Apple's been bitten by a few design flaws in the race to thinner and cheaper.
Then you get the biggest benefit of funneling American money into somewhere in America. You could put it in the middle of the desert and run it on nothing but Solar. The CIA built their last data center in the middle of nowhere. All of that gives a net benefit to the area because the staff that it takes to run the data center needs to live somewhere. And they need a place to eat, shop, etc. When they go home they'll want 4G and fast Internet. There will need to be a hotel in town for when Apple executives fly in to check on stuff (even if it's just for a Press Shoot). Journalists will need a place to stay to cover events.
Make "Big Data, Big Cloud" the 21st century Gold Rush.
but I'm baffled where all the Trump supporters came from.
There are a few different groups. Lets get the KKK, Nationalists, etc out of the way. Yes they voted for him (Like they would have voted for Clinton) but their numbers are so small they're really not worth discussing on a national scale.
In the Midwest:
In large part it's blue collar salt of the earth people in the middle. Come out and visit 'us'. (I didn't vote trump but my state and county did). If you make a joke about flyover country you'll probably get punched the 10th time you say it. Most of the people out here are the nicest people you'll meet. If you ever needed anything (Flat tire, etc) they'll be the first to stop and lend a hand. Everyone has had a job that was affected by NAFTA. (Real or perceived, most people think they were affected by NAFTA)
50% of household earning less than $35k don't have Internet. Some townships are on Dialup alone. [Despite having our tax money go to help fix that]. Our infastructure is literally falling apart around us. We don't have enough population in any single county to warrant people paying attention to us. When it comes to 'social' issues most of us are "I don't see it I don't care". When asked where a transgendered person pees it's probably in the woods like everyone else. But we really, really hate being dictated to about 'how it is' from the coasts.
Some of us tried the high road, my county went very Bernie in the primaries. Polls had both WI and MI completely wrong. We saw Bernie as the democratic way to 'make america great again' and were told, literally, "You aren't needed in November" despite filling stadiums and waiting in lines to see Sanders.
Republican votes per county have held flat 2008-2012-2016. Jill stein saw a 'huge' jump between 2012-2016. And Democratic voters more or less just stayed home.
The second group is a bit more entertaining to watch:
It's/r/The_Donald. It's the angry, contrarian young male vote. It seems to be a melting pot of RedPill, 4Chan, and a bunch of other places that demographic hangs out, online equivalent of a bag of cats.
Milo Yiannopoulos seemed to gain a lot of traction and followers out of the GamerGate. They have less in common other than they really really hate the "SJW" type and saw trump as the anti PC candidate. I'm fascinated by people watching so I've dug through some profiles. Most are just 18-25 year old males that feel something about Obama or Clinton gave them the short end of the stick.
The recruiting techniques are pretty much follow gang recruiting techniques that have been used for centuries and are used now to radicalize people for ISIS. "Did those people wrong you? It's this persons fault. Join us and we'll "fix" it".
Beyond that there's really nothing that binds them. (Other than some don't know how to create new Reddit Profiles).
Dumb children don't suddenly pass 30 and suddenly know how to think critically. If you work in an office environment you probably have a strong selection bias who you hang around. (Even the dumbest person in my office is smarter than a lot of people I've met).
There are plenty of older Americans that fall for Phishing tricks, send money to Nigeria, etc.
You know how I know you don't know what your'e talking about? Because OS X does it exactly how you say you want it to be done.
When I plug in my DV camera it doesn't *do* anything. But when I open iMovie or FCP or any other app that should access the DV camera it Just Works. I don't have to find drivers it doesn't throw permissions errors.
as a raw file
Want to know the fastest way to do that through the GUI? iMovie.
they ask what you want to do and one of the options is to 'Do nothing' which is usually what I pick.
The difference between OS X and Windows is that when you plug something in it does Just Work. Windows almost always just goes "Hey no drivers no clue".
This is the technological equivalent of 'let them eat cake'.
How long does it take to load on a 0.9MBps connection?
How long does it take to load on dialup?
satellite connection
Which is expensive and out of the reach of a lot of people.
Like I said once: 50% of households earning less than $34k/year don't have internet. Period. Not 56k, not 0.9 Mbps, not 25 Mbps. None. How long does 7 MB to load at 0.00 Mbps? It's not like with the Rural Electrification Act that forced someone to run them power or POTS. Comcast says we're not profitable. DSL says we're not profitable and then you wonder why people feel forgotten.
I know that. It's how I got into Linux/BSD back in early 2000. OS X was the gateway to the command line for me.
I don't think my sister would even know what to do in a terminal if you opened it for her.
The core Apple Demographic is not going to be opening a terminal and configuring anything. How is it so hard for Slashdot to understand that these people exist and purchase things?
Maybe that's why the voted a clown into the WH by the droves
How exactly were they supposed to know how much of a clown he was? There are people without access to the internet period. Those that do have have internet don't have fast internet. It's why I think those fake news sites are optimized for very slow connections.
HuffingtonPost's front page weighs in at 7 MB. That's a complete non-starter if your internet connection is below a certain threshold.
Ah yes, SSH clients, the favorite program of the core Apple demographic.
And you can't control a Ubiquiti access point through a web browser until you setup the controller. Which is a 'wonderful' java app that you need to leave running on a machine 24/7.
The guy keeping the horses in line died on the reigns and now they're all going their own direction seeking out profit. The hugely profitable Apple we saw in the early 2010s was started in the early 2000s with Jobs' decisions. It's not like the switch to Intel happened overnight.
I'm wondering if they have anything in the pipeline like the Intel switch (I was hoping for ARM laptops) to keep them profitable through 2030.
Except routers are the one thing between most Mac users at home and the Internet. Apple's routers filled a niche of 'working'. I've had far fewer problems diagnosing Apple router problems of family members than D-Link/Netgear/Etc.
While I have no problem setting up Ubiquity ERL and Access Points or DD-WRT/OpenWRT on a generic router there are people out there that do have a problem with it. They just want their devices to work together. The AirportExtreme got high marks https://www.cnet.com/products/... in reviews. It's easy and straight forward to setup.
Jobs understood this and it's why Airport existed in the first place. The first one had a 56k modem as well. It was a straight forward 'plug in, minimal config, use' device back in the early 2000s when most generic routers were a bit more difficult.
The demographic that wants Time Machine to work out of the box doesn't have a large overlap with the demographic that is going to setup a FreeNAS machine.
This is going to come back and bite Apple again. Jobs wanted a set of devices that was plugin, turn on, work. My video processing machine is a MacMini core solo. I've forgotten about how easy Snow Leopard was to use as an OS. I plugged my DV cam in via firewire, it showed up in iMovie.
Airport was the same way. Yes, there are 'better' solutions out there but not for the Mac demographic. It's the demographic that Jobs understood and heads would have rolled if you needed a dongle to use the latest phone and laptop.
The Airport Express was way ahead of its time in 2004 and made a great sound streaming / hotel router. (Back when most hotels forced you to ethernet)
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The thing that Trump did was convince them to even go out and vote.
Trump got the angry young fired up youth behind him (much as Bernie had) and those people influenced all of their family. There were a lot of "I talked my mom into voting this election, never voted before!" posts in Trump forums/chats. Similar to the Sanders primary. One or two enthusiastic teens can potentially influence quite a few people by time you add up parents, friends, etc.
When the DNC picked Clinton they shot that demographic in the foot and walked away. Other than some Stein/Johnson chatter most of my Sanders friends (and sanders Forums) all just went silent. Those that did go out and vote were the Depressed Voter. A lot of people just turned away from politics back to what ever position it was in before.
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How many people do you think it's going to take to run a future factory? Electronics is going to follow the same path that the Auto industry did. How much health insurance, retirement and benefits do you think Robots take?
Because we're incapable of building our own production lines and fab shops?
An the world gets ready for Industry 4.0 companies are going to have to put in brand new production lines somewhere. It could be China or it could be in the US.
It's not as simple as that. "More than double" could mean a lot of things. It could just refer to the production costs.
China is quickly automating a lot of the factory jobs because Americans whine when Foxconn workers kill themselves. If they're going to completely automate a new product line the price difference between doing it in China and doing it in the US probably shrinks. Watch apple's videos on how the MBP is made. Count the workers.
Add in a lot of other fringe benefits you get from bringing it back home. First off is the good publicity. Apple just needs to release a Trump Murica edition and the first Made in America smart phone would sell out in the south faster than they do in the north. "Made in America" is this christmas's hottest gift out in Trump country. Most stores are pushing their local/American products front and center.
Then you have all the good for the environment feel good articles about how 1 ship moving iPhones from China is equal to X million trees. We reduced carbon emissions by this much. Subaru does Zero Landfill on their Car production lines, an iPhone can't be that much harder.
Finally there are all the engineering benefits. I don't know how many Kickstarters I've watched fail because they did everything in China and didn't have a good translator. With on-shore workers you can have face to face meetings more often with manufacturing reducing 1) problems 2) improving quality.
We've caught numerous getting ready for manufacturing. It's because people on the line give feedback straight to engineers. The average Chinese worker probably doesn't want to point out a problem they notice. Apple's been bitten by a few design flaws in the race to thinner and cheaper.
Then you get the biggest benefit of funneling American money into somewhere in America. You could put it in the middle of the desert and run it on nothing but Solar. The CIA built their last data center in the middle of nowhere. All of that gives a net benefit to the area because the staff that it takes to run the data center needs to live somewhere. And they need a place to eat, shop, etc. When they go home they'll want 4G and fast Internet. There will need to be a hotel in town for when Apple executives fly in to check on stuff (even if it's just for a Press Shoot). Journalists will need a place to stay to cover events.
Make "Big Data, Big Cloud" the 21st century Gold Rush.
Once you have the methodology and code to do the statistical analysis it should be trivial to apply it to other elections.
What happens if it shows that Clinton was cheated out of the presidency and Sanders was cheated out of the candidate position?
Take those 3 well mannered, well behaved cats and put them in a single bag. Let me know if they still behave the same way.
Remember when Ivaka got up and gave a speech to the RNC that sounded like something Bernie wrote? And they clapped.
but I'm baffled where all the Trump supporters came from.
There are a few different groups. Lets get the KKK, Nationalists, etc out of the way. Yes they voted for him (Like they would have voted for Clinton) but their numbers are so small they're really not worth discussing on a national scale.
In the Midwest:
In large part it's blue collar salt of the earth people in the middle. Come out and visit 'us'. (I didn't vote trump but my state and county did). If you make a joke about flyover country you'll probably get punched the 10th time you say it. Most of the people out here are the nicest people you'll meet. If you ever needed anything (Flat tire, etc) they'll be the first to stop and lend a hand. Everyone has had a job that was affected by NAFTA. (Real or perceived, most people think they were affected by NAFTA)
50% of household earning less than $35k don't have Internet. Some townships are on Dialup alone. [Despite having our tax money go to help fix that]. Our infastructure is literally falling apart around us. We don't have enough population in any single county to warrant people paying attention to us. When it comes to 'social' issues most of us are "I don't see it I don't care". When asked where a transgendered person pees it's probably in the woods like everyone else. But we really, really hate being dictated to about 'how it is' from the coasts.
Some of us tried the high road, my county went very Bernie in the primaries. Polls had both WI and MI completely wrong. We saw Bernie as the democratic way to 'make america great again' and were told, literally, "You aren't needed in November" despite filling stadiums and waiting in lines to see Sanders.
Republican votes per county have held flat 2008-2012-2016. Jill stein saw a 'huge' jump between 2012-2016. And Democratic voters more or less just stayed home.
The second group is a bit more entertaining to watch:
It's /r/The_Donald. It's the angry, contrarian young male vote. It seems to be a melting pot of RedPill, 4Chan, and a bunch of other places that demographic hangs out, online equivalent of a bag of cats.
Milo Yiannopoulos seemed to gain a lot of traction and followers out of the GamerGate. They have less in common other than they really really hate the "SJW" type and saw trump as the anti PC candidate. I'm fascinated by people watching so I've dug through some profiles. Most are just 18-25 year old males that feel something about Obama or Clinton gave them the short end of the stick.
The recruiting techniques are pretty much follow gang recruiting techniques that have been used for centuries and are used now to radicalize people for ISIS. "Did those people wrong you? It's this persons fault. Join us and we'll "fix" it".
Beyond that there's really nothing that binds them. (Other than some don't know how to create new Reddit Profiles).
For example one user is a ~20 year old 2nd generation Muslim Indian immigrant. Follows soccer and Cricket, loves cats, smokes cannabis lives in NY, drives around a BMW 435i and used to drive an Audi S5. And is all on the trump train ... because.
"Mrs Clinton. How can you be sure that elections can be hacked in this method".
"If you'll see the exhibits 4 through 9 these are the DNC primary results"
At the rate of change we've seen out of him so far he's going to be left of Bernie in 4 years.
Hell I wouldn't be surprised if TrumpCare(tm) was single payer through some loopholes and careful wording. Marketing is everything.
There are more than plenty dumb adults.
Dumb children don't suddenly pass 30 and suddenly know how to think critically. If you work in an office environment you probably have a strong selection bias who you hang around. (Even the dumbest person in my office is smarter than a lot of people I've met).
There are plenty of older Americans that fall for Phishing tricks, send money to Nigeria, etc.
No, that's literally exactly what I said.
I plugged my DV cam in via firewire, it showed up in iMovie.
I didn't say opened iMovie, didn't say automatically imported. I said showed up in iMovie .
In that case windows just works too.
If it can find the drivers.
You know how I know you don't know what your'e talking about? Because OS X does it exactly how you say you want it to be done.
When I plug in my DV camera it doesn't *do* anything. But when I open iMovie or FCP or any other app that should access the DV camera it Just Works. I don't have to find drivers it doesn't throw permissions errors.
as a raw file
Want to know the fastest way to do that through the GUI? iMovie.
they ask what you want to do and one of the options is to 'Do nothing' which is usually what I pick.
You mean like this? https://support.apple.com/libr...
The difference between OS X and Windows is that when you plug something in it does Just Work. Windows almost always just goes "Hey no drivers no clue".
Um, what else would you exactly do with it? If I quit iMovie and opened what ever other app accessed the /dev/ device it would show up there too.
Hell the latest Ubuntu releases seem to do more that I don't want them to than OS X did
First, double check your math. 7 MB / (25 Mbps) = 2.25s
25 megabits per second
This is the technological equivalent of 'let them eat cake'.
How long does it take to load on a 0.9MBps connection?
How long does it take to load on dialup?
satellite connection
Which is expensive and out of the reach of a lot of people.
Like I said once: 50% of households earning less than $34k/year don't have internet. Period. Not 56k, not 0.9 Mbps, not 25 Mbps. None. How long does 7 MB to load at 0.00 Mbps? It's not like with the Rural Electrification Act that forced someone to run them power or POTS. Comcast says we're not profitable. DSL says we're not profitable and then you wonder why people feel forgotten.
the worst they've ever needed to do is to power
The difference I've found between the consumer routers is the frequency between those restarts.
I helped a 'friend' and the best solution I came up with was one of those power timers that just turned everything off for a half hour around 4 am.
I know that. It's how I got into Linux/BSD back in early 2000. OS X was the gateway to the command line for me.
I don't think my sister would even know what to do in a terminal if you opened it for her.
The core Apple Demographic is not going to be opening a terminal and configuring anything. How is it so hard for Slashdot to understand that these people exist and purchase things?
And the groundwork for that profitability was laid in ~2005.
Maybe that's why the voted a clown into the WH by the droves
How exactly were they supposed to know how much of a clown he was? There are people without access to the internet period. Those that do have have internet don't have fast internet. It's why I think those fake news sites are optimized for very slow connections.
HuffingtonPost's front page weighs in at 7 MB. That's a complete non-starter if your internet connection is below a certain threshold.
Ah yes, SSH clients, the favorite program of the core Apple demographic.
And you can't control a Ubiquiti access point through a web browser until you setup the controller. Which is a 'wonderful' java app that you need to leave running on a machine 24/7.
So Jobs vs No Jobs apple.
The guy keeping the horses in line died on the reigns and now they're all going their own direction seeking out profit. The hugely profitable Apple we saw in the early 2010s was started in the early 2000s with Jobs' decisions. It's not like the switch to Intel happened overnight.
I'm wondering if they have anything in the pipeline like the Intel switch (I was hoping for ARM laptops) to keep them profitable through 2030.
Except routers are the one thing between most Mac users at home and the Internet. Apple's routers filled a niche of 'working'. I've had far fewer problems diagnosing Apple router problems of family members than D-Link/Netgear/Etc.
While I have no problem setting up Ubiquity ERL and Access Points or DD-WRT/OpenWRT on a generic router there are people out there that do have a problem with it. They just want their devices to work together. The AirportExtreme got high marks https://www.cnet.com/products/... in reviews. It's easy and straight forward to setup.
Jobs understood this and it's why Airport existed in the first place. The first one had a 56k modem as well. It was a straight forward 'plug in, minimal config, use' device back in the early 2000s when most generic routers were a bit more difficult.
The demographic that wants Time Machine to work out of the box doesn't have a large overlap with the demographic that is going to setup a FreeNAS machine.
This is going to come back and bite Apple again. Jobs wanted a set of devices that was plugin, turn on, work. My video processing machine is a MacMini core solo. I've forgotten about how easy Snow Leopard was to use as an OS. I plugged my DV cam in via firewire, it showed up in iMovie.
Airport was the same way. Yes, there are 'better' solutions out there but not for the Mac demographic. It's the demographic that Jobs understood and heads would have rolled if you needed a dongle to use the latest phone and laptop.
The Airport Express was way ahead of its time in 2004 and made a great sound streaming / hotel router. (Back when most hotels forced you to ethernet)
How exactly do you think Ubiquiti's access points are configured?
My IoT switches are Z-wave. My thermostat is RS485. My individual temp feedback sensors are passive 433 MHz.
It's another layer of abstraction and less holes to plug than just letting everything have unfettered access to the outside world.